[AfrICANN-discuss] AFRALO-African meeting at ICANN75

[Seun Ojedeji]

Unfortunately or fortunately(choose one that fits) he is still here. :-)

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Kindly excuse brevity and typos
Every word has consequences.
Every silence does too!

On Sun, 25 Sep 2022, 18:09 Dr Eberhard W Lisse, <el at lisse.na> wrote:

> And I had so hoped he had gone away.
>
> el
> On 25. Sep 2022, 17:23 +0200, Y Mshana <ymshana2003 at gmail.com>, wrote:
>
> Oh no! Not again after all those years..
> 🤯
>
> On Thu, 22 Sep 2022, 15:59 Dr Eberhard W Lisse, <el at lisse.na> wrote:
>
>> Some thoughts on the session:
>>
>>         Basically most of the session time was wasted with
>>         approximately 10 addresses by the usual suspects all of which
>>         had the same content, namely exactly zero.
>>
>>         This is not new, it has been unchanged approximately since I
>>         have attended the first meeting many years ago.
>>
>>         The only exception was Alan Barrett who then however faced
>>         headwind for making the practical and good suggestion of
>>         clients to engage their providers if and when these do not
>>         provide Universal Access.
>>
>>         Several speakers (in particular the (outgoing African) Board
>>         Members who should have ample opportunity to actually do
>>         something about it (but NEVER do)) pontificated about how
>>         important it would be to have ICANN Meetings in Africa.
>>
>>         While I am all in favor of that, in particular in Namibia, the
>>         Chair wasted the opportunity to engage ICANN's CEO on this,
>>         which had to be done by Sébastien Bachollet and even in
>>         English, pointing out that one of the reasons to create the
>>         smaller ICANN (policy) meetings was to have reduced
>>         requirements in oder to be able to hold meetings in developing
>>         countries.
>>
>>         Of course he was fobbed off, and, in a manner which I consider
>>         bordering the line of ICANN's Standards of Acceptable
>>         Behavior.
>>
>>         The point is not that we need to have meetings in all ICANN
>>         regions and in particular in Africa, which we do, and we all
>>         know that, the question is why ICANN is not doing it or
>>         anything about it?
>>
>>         Well, I think, this is because the "paying" stakeholders do
>>         not wish to meet in less than 5 star environments close to
>>         major airports, let alone transit.
>>
>>         This US-centricity which is patently obvious in so many ICANN
>>         aspects is, in my view, not compatible with the multi
>>         stakeholder model.
>>
>>         Fortunately there was no time to review or even debate the
>>         "statement", which mostly nobody reads, but most certainly is
>>         never acted upon.
>>
>> greetings, el
>> --
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